Michelle Tillis Lederman

Communicating to Connect: Grow Leaders, Retain Top Talent, and Engage Employees

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Michelle Tillis Lederman

Communicating to Connect: Grow Leaders, Retain Top Talent, and Engage Employees

Add To My Speaker List Check Fee/Availability

In-Person Fee Range:

$20,001 - $30,000

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Traveling from:

New Jersey

Why Book

If you are like most companies today, you are striving to grow your leaders, retain your top talent, and engage your employees. Michelle helps organizations leverage their greatest assets – their people.
Michelle is an interactive, highly energetic and engaging speaker. She gets the audience involved and often bribes them with prizes to participate. She tells stories and take a conversational tone. Her talks are prescriptive, meaning people walk out with ideas they can immediately implement to make a difference tomorrow.
Michelle is most frequently described as an energetic, interactive, and engaging speaker. Approachable and easy to understand, she takes complex concepts and makes them simple and accessible to all audiences.

Biography

Michelle Tillis Lederman, CSP, SCC, is an expert on workplace communications and relationships. Named by Forbes as one of the Top 25 Networking Experts, and one of the Top 30 Communications Professionals in the World by Global Gurus. Michelle is the author of four books including The Connectors Advantage and The 11 Laws of Likability. Michelle is CEO of Executive Essentials, which provides customized communications and leadership programs for fortune 500, non-profit, university and government clients. A former finance executive and NYU Professor, Michelle is a regular in the media appearing on NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNBC, and others. An accomplished speaker, trainer, author and executive coach, Michelle is known for helping people work better together and advance their individual impact.

Programs

Foster and Retain an Engaged Team

Do you want to be a leader people want to work for? Creating a strong, engaged team translates into a more positive work environment, lower turnover, and greater productivity and collaboration. It also has a direct effect on your organization’s bottom line: companies with highly engaged employees outperform others by over 200%.

Connected Leadership will help you develop the specific skills you need to better connect with your employees. Discover how you can become a leader who attracts and engages an eager, committed team. Build stronger relationships that increase your value, influence, and impact.

What You Will Learn:

Discover the correlation between a relationship driven leader and the bottom line
Increase your authenticity and productive energy in interactions
Build and retain trust to improve productivity, morale, loyalty and retention
Nurture your network and increase your influence
Connect in conversation and deal with difficult coworkers

Boost Your Influence

Research studies consistently reveal that people prefer to do business with, hire, buy from and work with people they like. Yet the desire to be liked is often minimized and even mocked in its importance in business. Discover how authenticity in our interactions, adopting a giving approach and finding common ground are the foundation for boosting your likability. The highest levels of achievement come to those who mix expertise with likability.

When you are liked, you are listened to and viewed as trustworthy and credible. In this talk Michelle explains how to leverage the Laws of Likability and the mindsets of a Connector resulting in more business, more influence, and a more engaged team.

What You Will Learn:

Understand why likability matters in business
Increase your authenticity and productive energy in interactions
Discover how to find common ground with almost anyone
Learn multiple ways to add value to your network
Connect in conversation and deal with difficult personalities

Influencing Others into Action

What do you want? How likely are you to make it happen in the time frame you want? The truth is we often need the actions of others to accomplish our goals. The best way to get what you want is to figure out why someone else wants you to have it.

In this interactive talk Michelle will reveal the three reasons people take action and how to increase your aptitude of each technique.

What You Will Learn:

Recognize the three reasons people take action
Incorporate the Inquiry vs Advocacy model to reveal motivations
Discover how to position requests using What’s In It For Them (WIIFT)
Adopt a Connector mindset to leverage relationships
Ask for what you want with ease and increase the odds of getting a ‘yes’

Relationship Networking

In the fast moving world where everyone is communicating through email, text and instant messaging we have forgotten the power of face-to-face conversation. Communication and connection is the foundation for building a thriving network and business.

During this talk, Michelle will inspire you to leverage the power of personal connection in the digital age while still incorporating the efficiency of virtual communication.

What You Will Learn:

Move from first conversation to lasting connection
Learn what to do before the first conversation ends
Leverage technology and social media in simple ways to increase familiarity
Discover specific ways to increase your value to your network

Intentional Connection in a Hybrid World Staying Present While Remote

In the new normal of remote work, connecting has taken on new challenges. In the fast moving, hybrid world we communicate through email, text and video conference and forget the power of conversation. Communication and connection are the foundation for building a thriving network and business.

During this talk, Michelle will inspire you to leverage the power of personal connection in the hybrid work environment while still incorporating the efficiency of virtual communication.

What You Will Learn:

Recognize the benefits and drawbacks of connecting in the remote workplace
Leverage technology to show up powerfully while on screen
Discover key strategies to build intentional connection into your agenda
Learn how curiosity creates connection, keeps you engaged and minimizes multitasking